prototaxic
/ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)ˈtaksɪk/Psychology
adjective
Designating a hypothetical first stage of experiencing or receiving impressions; specifically designating the most basic or primal mode of experience (normally in the first year of life) in which awareness of self, time, and space is lacking.
- Chiefly associated with the American psychiatrist H. S. Sullivan (1892–1949)..
Origin
1940s. From proto- + -taxis + -ic. Compare earlier parataxic and also syntaxic.
- take the cake
- take the chair
- take the chequered flag
- take the chill off
- take the count
- take the easy way out
- take the edge off
- take the fall
- take the field
- take the floor
- take the gilt off the gingerbread
- take the King's (or Queen's) shilling
- take the King's shilling
- take the law into one's own hands
- take the liberty
- take the long view
- take the mound
- take the (or one's etc.) secret to the grave
- take the part of
- take the piss (out of someone/thing)
- take the place of
- take the plunge
- take the rap
- take the rough with the smooth
- take the salute